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first  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrsted  impres- 
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de  le  nettet*  de  rexempieire  film*,  et  en 
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JOHN  H.  BLjVKE,  ESQ.,  OF  BOSTON, 

AND 

WILLIAM    PLUMMER,    ESQ.,    OF    CANADA. 


TOGKTIIEU  WITH 


Extract  from  the  Report  of  Sir  William  E.  Logan, 

CHIEF  OF  THE  CiOVEUNMENT  SURVEY  OK  THE  I'ASADAS. 


ALSO, 


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WITH   A  LIST  OK   ITS  OFFICEKS. 


BOSTON: 

PRESS  OF  GEC.  C.  RAND  &  AVERY,  No.  3  CORNIIILL, 

1803. 


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PRESIDENT, 

JOSEPH     H.    CHADWICK, 

Of  Boston. 


VICE-PKESIDENT, 

JAMES     FOLEY, 
Of  JVTontreal. 


THEASURER  AND  SECRETARY, 

CARLOS    PEIRCE, 
Of  Boston. 


ASSISTANT   SECRETARY, 

JOSEPH    WHYDDON, 
Of  Montreal. 


DIRECTORS, 

JOSEPH  n.  CHADWICK,  OF  Boston. 
JAMES  FOLEY,  of  Montreal. 
JAMES  M.  KEITH,  of  Boston. 
THOMAS  CROSS,  of  Montreal. 
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THE   RAMSAY  LEAD  MINING  AND  SMELTING 

COMPANY. 


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The  Ramsay  Load  Mining  and  Smelting  Company  is  a  cor- 
poration organized  under  a  special  charter  of  a  most  liberal 
character,  granted  by  the  Provincial  Legislature  of  Canada, 
having  a  capital  of  five  hundred  tliousand  dollars,  divided  into 
twenty  thousand  shares  of  twenty-five  dollars  each. 

The  mine  is  located  in  the  township  of  Ramsay,  Canada 
West,  within  three-four tlis  of  a  mile  of  the  Carlton  Place  Sta- 
tion, on  the  Brockville  '-ind  Ottawa  Railroad,  and  is  connected 
by  continuous  lines  of  railway  with  Montreal,  and  also  with 
New  York  and  IJoston.    The  neighborhood  is  thickly  populated, 
labor,   provisions  and   fuel  very  cheap,  and  all  facilities  for 
mining  opei-ations    favorable.     The  property  consists   of  one 
hundred  acres  of  land,  a  smolting-iiouse,  with  furnaces,  stacks. 
Hues,  etc.,  dwelliiig-hous<'s  for  miners,  blacksmith  shop,  store- 
house, offices  and   other  buildings,  together  with  two  steam 
engines,  —  one  fifty  and  one  twelve  horse-power,  —  crushers, 
pvuiips,  and  other  necessary  articles  of  equipment.      A  first- 
class  [)rize  medal  has  been  awarded  liy  the  commissioners  of 
the  London  International  Exhibition,  for  specimens  of  ore  and 
lend  sent  from  this  mine.    Tiie  main  loiio,  which  is  j)rohounced 
by  competent  geologists  to  be  a  true  lode,  has  been   proved  for 
more  thai',  a  thousand  feet  in  length,  with  a  l»readth  of  two 
and  a  half  to  five  feet  or  more.     Tlie  nuitrix  of  the  ore  is  soft, 
yielding  readily  to  the  pick,  and  seldom  reciuiring  the  aid  of 
powder. 

The  Ramsay  Lend  Mine,  as  an  investment,  oilers  great  ad- 
vantages, it  is  a  property  already  tested  and  made  productive, 
and  therefore  free  from  the  risks  and  expenses  which  attend 
the  opening  and  eipiijtment  of  an  untried  pro])erty. 


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Gentlemen  : 

In  accordance  witli  your  request  I  have  made  such  an  exam- 
ination of  and  investigation  concerning  the  Ramsay  Lead  Mine, 
situatf'd  about  one  mile  from  Carleton  Place,  County  of  Lanark, 
Canada  West,  as  the  season  and  the  state  of  the  mine  admitted. 

There  are  two  distinct  lead  hearing  veins  (sulphuret  of  lead 
or  galena)  extending  in  a  direction  northwesterly  and  south- 
easterly, from  two  to  five  feet  or  more  in  thickness,  with  well 
defuied  walls.  The  vein  stono  is  calcareous  spar.  It  is  rich  in 
ore,  and  easily  mined  and  crushed.  These  veins  occur  in  mag- 
ncsian  limestone  which  overlies  the  Potsdam  sandstone,  the 
thickness  of  which  will  not  prol)al)ly  here  exceed  one  hundred 
feet,  and  beneath  will  be  found  either  limestone  or  gneiss. 
Tiiese  are  true  mineral  veins  ;  no  limit  can  be  fixed  to  their 
dei»th,  and  they  will  probably  be  found  to  grow  richer  in  ore  as 
they  descend.  They  are  of  the  same  character,  and  belong  to 
the  same  age  as  the  Ilossie  veins  —  are  fiivorably  situated  for 
working,  for  smelting  the  ore,  and  for  transportation  of  the 
products  to  any  jjart  of  Canada  or  the  United  States. 

My  rejiort  will  be  drawn  upon  my  return  to  Boston,  and  will 
contain  all  the  information  concerning  the  mine  1  have  been 
able  to  obtain.  In  the  mean  time  I  trust  that  a  brief  expression 
of  my  opinion  concerning  it  will  be  suHicicnt  for  your  purpose. 
It  is,  that  the  lodes  wliich  have  been  prospected  upon,  and  in 
some  measui'c  laid  open,  are  true  miiu'ral  lodes,  well  dolined, 
and  inexbaustil)le.  That  they  can  bo  worked,  and  the  ore 
dressi'd  and  smelted  at  moderate  cost,  and  will  allbrd  an  ample 
return,  fully  warranting  tlie  necessary  expenditure  for  opeiang 
the  mine  to  a  great  depth. 

Kvery  indication  warr'Uits  fh<!  opinion  that  the  yield  of  ore 
vnll  lie  abundant,  and  that  the  Uanisay  Load  Mine  will  prove  to 
bo  one  of  the  most  valuable  in  the  country. 

Ues[teetfully, 

Your  obedient  servant. 


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JOHN    U.    HLAKH. 


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Gentlemen  : 

In  accordance  with  your  request  I  made  an  examination  of 
the  Ramsay  Lead  Mines  on  the  80th  ultimo,  and,  though  unable 
to  make  stich  surface  exploration  as  was  desirable,  the  grouiul 
being  covered  with  snow,  aided  '>y  the  valuable  lleports  of  the 
Geological  Survey  of  Canada,  by  Sir  William  E.  Logan,  and 
information  derived  from  my  interview  with  him,  the  result  of 
my  examiiuvtion  has  been  more  satisfactory  to  me  than  I  liad 
reason  to  suppose  it  would  be  when  I  left  Boston  ;  and  it  is  with 
coulidence  in  the  judgment  1  was  able  to  form  that  I  present  to 
you  the  following  brief  Hki'okt  :  — 

The  existence  of  a  vein  of  galena^  suljihuret  of  lead,  on  the 
third  lot  of  the  sixth  range  of  Ramsay,  in  Canada  West,  Avas 
ascertained  by  ^fr.  Richardson  in  18o3.  In  1859  an  Act  of 
Incori)or{ition  was  granted  to  David  Torrance,  Esq.,  and  others, 
his  associates,  in  tl»e  najue  of  "  The  Ramsay  Lead  Mining  and 
Smelting  Company,"  since  wliich  time  the  j)lacc  has  been  known 
as  the  Ramsay  Lend  Klines.  It  is  situated  a  little  less  than  a 
mile  froiii  Carleton  Place,  in  tlie  county  of  Lanark,  Canaila 
West,  and  is  reached  from  ^lontreal  !)y  the  Grand  Trunk  Rail- 
way to  Rrockville,  thence  by  the  JJrockville  and  Ottawa  Rail- 
way to  Carleton  Place.  • 

At  tlie  Ramsay  Lead  Mines  there  are  two  distinct  veins  of 
calc-spar  in  which  galena  is  disseniinaled,  the  one  termed  the 
lode,  having  a  course  northwest  and  soutlieast  (X.  4^°  to  oO" 
W. ) ;  the  other  known  as  the  eounterlode,  having  a  course 
nearly  east  and  west.  The  latter  Joins  the  former  at  an  angle 
of  alH)ut  *20°,  at  a  distance  of  a  little  more  than  six  hundred 
feet  from  the  main  shiil't.  in  a  northwesterly  direction.  These 
veins  vary  in  tiiiekncss  IVoni  two  (o  live  feet  or  more,  and  the 
ore  is  dissemiuati'd  in  tliem  in  a  width  ol  from  one  inch  t(»  two 
feet.  Tiie  underlie  of  the  veins  is  to  the  northeastward,  about 
one  fot)t  in  a  fathom.  They  cut  nearly  iiori/ontal  beds  of  dolo- 
mite belonging  to  the  lower  Silurian  series.  The  base  of  this 
l'orniati(»n  crops  out  altoul  a  mile  from  the  shaft  on  the  bearing 
of  the  mait\  lode,  and  is  succcedeil  by  Potsdam  sandstone,  Ite- 
yond  which  the  giuMss  and  crystalline  limestone  of  the  Lauren- 
tian  nge  is  presented. 


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The  main  shaft,  which  has  hccu  sunk  upon  the  vein  between 
six  and  seven  fathoms,  has  reached  the  Potsdam  sandstone,  and 
in  my  interview  with  Sir  William  E.  Logan,  he  expressed  the 
opinion  that  if  extended  not  exceeding  se)?enty-five  or  a  hun- 
dred feet  lower,  it  Avill  have  passed  through  it  and  entered  the 
gneiss  or  limerock  beneath.  According  to  Mr.  Banfield,  who 
for  a  time  had  charge  of  the  mine,  the  sandstone  is  not  over 
fifty  or  sixty  feet  thick.  His  judgment  has  weight,  having  been 
formed  from  borings  made  for  an  artesian  W-dl,  about  a  mile 
distant,  and,  as  the  strata  lie  nearly  horizontal,  it  is  not  improb- 
able that  his  judgment  is  eoi'reet. 

The  Ramsay  veins  arc  of  the  same  character,  and  belong  to 
the  same  age,  as  the  Rossie  lodes  which  are  parallel  with  them, 
the  courses  of  the  lodes  of  Ramsay  and  Rossie  being  about 
forty  miles  apart.  In  the  latter  the  richest  yield  of  ore  was 
from  below  the  sandstone,  and  there  is  good  reason  for  suppos- 
ing that  such  will  be  found  1o  bo  the  ease  in  the  Ramsay  veins. 
These  veins  have  been  traced  on  the  surfiice  about  eighteen 
hundred  feet,  and  tlie  walls  exposed,  by  three  i)riiK'i]ial  shafts 
which  have  been  conuneneed ;  by  shaUow  costeani'ig  i)its,  and 
a  level  driven  ujion  the  vein,  at  a  depth  of  sixteen  feet  from 
the  surface,  about  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  northwesterly 
anil  two  hnndreil  and  seventy  il'et  soutiieasterly  from  the  main 
shaft. 

The  counterlode  bids  fair  to  prove  to  l)ea  "  strong  lode,"  and 
it  is  not  iniprobaltlc  that  it  will  bo  found,  after  folhnving  the 
course  of  the  main  lode,  to  resume  its  course  and  distinctive 
.'hai'acter.  The  thickness  whei'e  the  two  lodes  come  togetlier 
has  not  l»een  determined,  the  hanging  wall  only  having  Iteeii 
laid  bare. 

la  June,  1S,")S,  Mr.  Richard  Oatey,  an  experienced  ('oi-nwall 
miner,  conuneneed  work  on  th(^  main  lode  for  ^Ii'.  Torrance 
and  liis  associates,  wliieli  was  continued  till  tlu^  month  of  Octo- 
ber, the  work  progressing  slowly,  owing  to  liinite(l  nuians  and 
many  olistaeles  to  lie  overconu*.  During  this  time  his  force 
consisted  of  three  nuMt  and  four  boys  and  girls  ;  and  the  result 
of  his  labor,  besides  connneneing  the  opening  of  tht!  mini!  and 
improvements  made  u[)on  the  surl'ace,  wa:<  a  yield  of  twenty-si.K 


tons  of  dressed  ore,  containing  eighty  per  cent,  of  lead.  In  the 
month  of  May  of  tlic  following  year,  Mr.  Oatey  renewed  work 
at  tlie  mine,  and  set  up  a  small  steam  engine  and  pump,  which 
had  ))een  condemned  at  the  Rossie  mines,  and  which  was  pur- 
chased for  a  trifling  sum ;  also  apparatus  for  dressing  and 
reducing  the  ore,  on  a  small  scale.  Work  was  also  carried  on 
during  this  summer  in  suiking  the  maui  shaft,  in  prospecting 
and  in  taking  out  ore  from  near  the  surface,  not  by  stoping,  hut 
underfoot  work,  regard  being  had  to  get  at  ore  in  sight  in  order 
to  help  pay  the  cxi)onses,  without  waiting  for  the  mine  to  be 
properly  opened  and  worked  systematically,  in  view  of  greater 
results  with  greater  economy.  The  work  of  this  season  (1859) 
was  concluded  in  September,  and  the  result,  in  addition  to  labor 
expended  upon  buildings,  machinery,  and  sinking  the  shaft, 
was  one  thousand  pigs  of  lend,  averaging  seventy-eight  pounds 
each.  The  labor  employed  during  this  time  consisted  of  from 
six  to  seven  men  and  four  to  live  boys  and  girls.  Part  of  this 
labor  was  expeiuletl  in  drawing  wood,  and  in  drawing  water 
from  a  considerable  distance  fin-  dressing  the  (*re,  the  shaft  not 
having  been  sunk  deep  enough,  at  that  time,  to  furnish  water 
on  the  spot. 

Nothing  further  was  done  till  the  month  of  June,  of  the  fol- 
lowing year,  when  work  was  resumed  f')r  Messrs.  Foley  &  Co., 
of  Montreal,  uiuler  the  supervision  of  Mr.  Hantield,  who,  in  a 
letter  dated  on  the  fifteenth  of  August,  addressed  to  Messrs. 
Foley  &  Co.,  speaks  of  having  just  eonnnenced  to  use  the  en- 
gine and  crusher.  Previous  to  this,  the  most  of  his  time,  and 
the  force  employed  l)y  liim,  hiid  been  expended  in  putting  up 
a  new  steam  engine,  smoke  stack,  roasting  oven,  and  crusher. 
The  shaft  Avas  sunk  by  him  only  al)out  four  teet.  His  entire 
for''e  consisted  of  six  men,  and  the  work  was  continued  till 
SeptemlxM',  at  wliieh  time  he  had  taken  out  something  over 
thirty  tons  of  dressed  ore,  Tliis  was  smelted  in  October,  and 
yielded  twenty-four  tons  of  lead,  of  very  i)ure  (piality,  and 
brought  in  tlie  market  lour  dollars  jier  ton  more  than  English 
pig  lead,  owing  to  its  greater  softness. 

It  appears  that  up  to  this  time  the  ])roduct  of  the  lode,  in 
pig  lead,  was  aliout  118,000  pounds,  all  of  which  came  from 


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ore  obtained  from  an  open  cut  on  the  surface,  and  a  drift  about 
sixteen  feet  from  the  surface,  excepting  what  may  have  been 
obtained  in  sinking  the  shafts  ;  but  none  of  it  from  any  great 
deptli. 

Tlie  ore  is  found  in  thin  veins  and  bunches  or  pockets,  the 
ore-])earing  part  of  tlie  main  vein,  so  far  as  it  lias  been  proved, 
varying  Irom  ciglit  to  twenty-four  inclies  in  tliickness.  Parts 
of  tlie  lode  have  yielded  five  tons  of  ore  in  a  fathom,  the  cost 
of  stoping  it  probably  not  exceeding  ten  dollars.  1  am  in- 
formed by  ilr.  Oatey,  in  whose  statements  I  have  the  fullest 
confidence,  that  during  the  last  season  when  the  mine  was 
worked,  three  men,  whose  wages  amounted  to  j£5  4s.  Od.  ($20.- 
80),  raised  one  ton  and  a  half  of  80  per  cent,  ore;  and  that  four 
men,  at  a  cost  of  £[)  10s.  Od.  ($88.00),  took  out  of  the  mine  five 
tons  of  80  per  cent.  ore.  I^Iy  examination  jiot  only  leads  to  a 
confirmation  of  these  statements,  l)ut  leads  me  to  believe  that 
much  l)etter  results  will  be  obtained  when  the  lode  is  worked 
below  the  Potsdam  sandstone. 

The  I)ottom  of  the  main  shaft  I  was  unaVtle  to  see,  the  shaft 
being  partially  filled  with  water ;  but  judging  from  what  had 
been  thrown  out  from  the  bottom,  during  the  last  workings, 
there  is  little  doubt  but  that  it  is  through  the  dolomite. 

Future  operations  should  be  mainly  directed  to  sinking  this 
shaft  through  the  saiulstone,  and  into  tlie  rock  of  the  Lauren- 
tian  series  beneath,  when  a  rich  return  for  the  re(juisito 
expenditure  may  be  anticipated.  In  the  ujeantime,  the  work 
of  driving  and  stojiiiig  in  tlie  present  level  may  be  carried  on, 
and  a  new  level  driven  near  the  present  bottom  of  the  shaft ; 
]>ut  until  the  mine  has  been  fairly  ()])eiied,  to  a  depth  of  forty 
or  fifty  fathoms,  no  additional  exjiense  need  be  incurred,  cx- 
ce|)ting  for  raising  water,  and  for  tiiis  a  lilting  jjump,  with  a 
cylinder  of  nine  or  ten  inches  in  diameter,  will  be  re(iuired,thc 
pumps  at  present  in  use  being  iiia(ie(|uate  for  tiie  ]»urpose. 

The  position  of  the  mine  is  (iiv(n'abk',  it  being  near  a  good 
road,  and  Ic-^s  than  a  mile  from  a  railway  station.  It  also 
atlbrds  facilities  for  surface-draining,  and  for  rcuulily  disposing 
of  the  waste  from  dressing  the  ore.  Charcoal  for  smelting  can 
lie  procured  lor  five  cents  per  bushel.     Wood  for  from  one 


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dollar  to  one  dollar  and  a  quarter  per  cord,  and  labor  for 
eighty  cents  per  diem  for  men,  and  about  twenty  cents  per 
diem  for  children. 

Concerning  the  character  of  these  veins  there  can  be  no 
doubt.  They  are  true  veins,  filling  cracks  in  the  formation ; 
unconformable  with  the  strata  ;  of  undetermined  extent  and 
incalculable  depth.  The  regularity  of  the  courses,  the  well- 
defined  walls,  the  great  thickness,  their  richness  in  ore  near  the 
surface,  the  associate  minerals,  oxide  and  sulphuret  of  iron  and 
sulphuret  of  zinc,  the  Gossan,  Mundic  and  Black  Jack,  in 
miners'  })hrase,  all  indicate  strong  and  productive  lodes,  well 
worthy  the  cx{)enditure  necessary  for  their  further  develop- 
ment. 

JOHN  K.  BLAKE. 

Boston,  April  10th,  1863. 


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REPORT   OP   WILLIAM   PLUMMER,   ESQ.,   THE   SURVEYOR   TO   THE 
RAMSAY   LEAD   MIXIXO    AM)    SMELTING   COMPANY. 


Montreal,  Scptcmbei-  lOtli,  18(}1. 

Gentlemen  :  I  have  sxirvoyeil  your  Ramsay  Lead  Mines, 
near  Carlton  nae(\  county  of  Lanark,  Canada  West,  and  beg 
to  hand  you  the  tbUowinii'  llei>ort : 

On  your  property  tliero  are  two  discovered  lead  veins.  The 
main  one,  or  that  on  which  operations  have  been  mostly  cai-ried 
on,  has  been  opened  for  a  length  of  from  twelve  to  fourteen 
hundred  feet ;  and  throughout  this  length  the  lode  has  main- 
tained its  course  with  the  utmost  regularity,  and  contains  in 
many  places  specimens  of  rich  galena.  The  bearing  of  this  lode 
is  from  48  to  45  deg.  west,  aiul  its  dip  or  underlie  is  north- 
east. 

To  facilitate  operations  an  engine  shaft  has  been  sunk  to  a 
depth  (on  the  course  of  the  lode)  of  40  feet,  from  which  ex- 
cavii lions  have  l)een  made  southeast  some  4o  fathoms,  and 
northwest  for  twenty  fathoms,  averaging  in  depth  from  20  feet 
at  the  engine-shaft  to  0  or  8  at  the  points  sj)eciried  to  the  north 
and  south  of  it.  Between  these  two  points  several  branches  or 
pockets  of  rich  ore  have  liecn  found  in  stoping  away  the  lode, 
which  alforded  remuneration  to  tlie  former  propriet<n's  for  the 
exi»ensi's  of  opening  and  carrying  on  the  works.  When  the 
shaft  had  been  sunk  to  the  depth  before  named,  the  influx  of 
water  became  so  great  that  it  (piite  overpowered  tlieir  limited 
means  of  jjumping.  Since  then  a  more  powerful  steam  engine 
has  Ijeen  erected,  capal)le  of  drawing  the  mine  to  a  consider- 
al»U'  depth,  as  well  as  (h'awing  tl\e  stiilV  to  tlie  surface.  Tiie 
strata  wiiich  the  lode  intersects  is  limestone  and  sandstone. 
The  former  appears  to  be  most  favoralde  to  the  existence  of 
lead  (lit!  in  reniun<'rative  (pnintities.  At  tiie  bottom  of  the 
engine  shaft  the  rock  is  (juite  changed  in  its  character,  as  are 
also  the  nature  and  properties  of  tiie  hulc.  It  has  to  all  ap- 
pearance entered  into  tiie  sandstone  formation,  and  become  less 
pi'oductive  of  ore.  'i'lie  hxle  at  tiie  l»ottoin  of  tlie  mine  is  now 
composed  of  (piartz,  carltonate  of  lime,  and  iron  pyrites,  with 


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occasional  spots  of  lead  ore,  anc  through  which  masses  of  sand- 
stouo  obtrude.  It  appears  pretty  evident  that  the  lode  is  in- 
fluenced by  the  same  cause  along  the  bottom  of  the  excavation 
f(n-  a  distance  of  BO  fathoms  to  tlie  nortlnvest  of  the  engine 
shaft,  where  tiic  limestone  crops  out  and  is  succeeded  by  the 
sandstone.  At  this  point  the  lode  takes  a  considerable  bend  to 
the  westward,  and  from  thence  maintains  a  bearin<>-  W.  35  dcf. 
W.  Tile  lode  does  not  ai)pear  to  be  influenced  by  its  turning 
to  the  west,  l»ut  maintains  its  usual  size,  which  is  strilcinsr 
evidence  of  its  strength  and  vitality. 

At  a  point  750  feet  W.  W.  of  the  engin-  sh;.:t  anotlier  shaft 
has  Itocn  sunk  in  the  course  of  the  lode  ;  and  here  the  lode  is 
large  and  promising  in  its  appearance.  It  is  now  sunk  some  20 
feet  deep,  and  has  yielded  a  (luantity  of  good  ore.  This  shaft,  I 
sliould  remark,  is  altogether  in  sandstone,  and  the  lode  in  it 
from  0  to  8  feet  wide,  composed  altogether  of  cpiartz,  carl)onate 
of  linh-,  and  lead  ore.  Peri)endicularly  through  the  lode  there 
are  wedge-sliajKHl  "■ /torses'"  of  sandstone. 

Having  traced  along  the  entire  lengtli  opened  of  the  main 
lode,  I  liave  to  add  tliat,  in  general,  wliere  it  passes  tlirougii  the 
limestone,  it  average's  from  two  to  five  feet  wide,  but  the  pro- 
ductive part  of  it  is  from  a  few  inches  to  2]  feet  wide. 

In  addition  to  the  lode  jusl  des('ril)ed,  another  has  recently 
l>een  found.  Tiie  bearing  of  it  is  nearly  east  iind  west,  and  it 
falls  into  the  main  lode  at  or  aliou.t  tlie  new  shaft.  Tin;  lode 
has  biHMi  opi-ned  by  costeaning  at  several  i)oints,  and  shows 
itself  lavorable  to  tiie  production  of  lead  ore.  At  one  place,  I 
am  informed,  :?  Ions  of  galena  were  raised,  averaging  from  T.j 
per  cent,  to  80  per  cent,  of  pure  lead.  The  matrix  of  the  lode 
is  cide-spar,  an<l  everywhere,  where  openings  have  Ihhmi  made, 
shows  to  b(!  productive  oi-(!  and  well  delined. 

In  your  fiiUir.'  operations,  1  beg  to  remark  that  your  whole 
energies  should  be  devoted  to  the  deepening  of  (he  mines, 
Everything  else  must  give  place  to  this  most  vital  point.  You 
have  sullieiently  proved  the  existtsnee  and  strength  of  (he  lode 
longitudiindly,  and  must  now  push  down  your  shafts,  so  as  to 
discover  their  value  in  depth.  In  my  opinion,  you  will  not  be 
rewarded  with  many  valuable  discoveries  whilst  sinking  through 


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the  saiulstoiie,  althouffh  you  may  meet  with  oceasional  branches 
of  ore.  But  you  must  look  to  the  lower  stratum  of  limestoue 
for  the  better  clevelopmcut  of  the  veui,  and  for  richer  branches 
of  ore,  as  I  am  informed  tliat  it  was  in  tliis  formutioiv  that 
the  Rossie  mines  yielded  their  riciiest  ores. 

I  may  close  my  report  in  the  language  used  by  Sir  William 
E.  Logan  :  —  "  Whatever  (piantity  of  ore  the  loile  may  carry 
with  it,  tliere  is  little  doubt  of  its  great  dej)th  —  a  depth  to 
which  indeed  no  certain  limits  can  be  placed;''''  that  is,  I  do 
not  believe  it  to  be  a  mere  surface  deposit,  but  a  regular  and 
true  vein,  and  one  that  ought,  from  every  ap|)earanec,  to  be 
ore-bearing  as  you  descend,  and  ultimately  valualtle  to  its 
owners. 

I  am,  Gentlemen,  yours  obediently, 

(Signed)         Wm.  PLUMMER. 

P.  S.  —  In  reading  over  my  report  I  find  I  have  omitted  one 
or  two  important  j)oints  in  relation  to  your  mine.  One  is  the 
soft  and  friable  nature  of  the  veins.  In  most  places  that  I  have 
examined,  stopings  can  be  carried  on  at  the  low  rate  of  £2  10s. 
(810.00)  ]ier  fathom,  and  sluifts  sunk  and  levels  driven  at  cor- 
responding i)ric(.'s.  Rut  litth'  bhtsting  powder  will  be  required, 
and  conse(pientIy  not  much  steel  for ''•drills.'"  Thesi;  are  two 
heavy  items  of  expenditure  in  most  mines,  from  which  you  will 
be  nearly  exempt. 

The  position  of  the  mine  is  most  admirable  in  every  resj)ect, 
especially  lor  dressing  the  ores,  which,  fnun  the  gentle  sloping 
of  the  surface  will  afford  you  evrry  advantage  for  discharging 
the  waste,  as  well  as  for  operating  on  the  ores;  and  its  close 
proximity  to  an  excellent  ro.ul,  leading  direct  to  tlu;  railway 
station,  only  about  three-(piarters  of  a  mile  distant.  These  are 
valuable  considerations,  and  ought  not  to  be  overlooked. 


(Signed) 


Wm.  PLL'MMER. 


RXTRACT   FROM   SIR   WILLIAM   E.    LOOAN's    GEOLOGICAL   REPORT 

FOR    18.01t. 

Ill  1853,  Mr.  Richardson  asoertiiiiicd  the  existence  of  a  vein 
of  jfuleiia  on  the  third  h>t  of  the  sixtli  range  of  Ramsay,  be- 
longing to  Mr.  J.  McLean.  An  analysis  of  tlie  oi-e  was  reported 
by  the  chemist  of  the  snrvey,  and  specimens  of  it  were  shown 
in  Montreal  as  jjart  of  the  contribntion  intended  for  the  Paris 
Exhibition  in  IHoo.  Tlie  subsequent  exhibition  of  specimens 
from  the  same  locality  in  the  Museum  of  the  Survey  has  leil  to 
a  ])ractical  trial  of  the  vein  during  the  last  summer.  A  shaft 
of  five  fathoms  in  depth  has  been  sunk  on  the  lode,  and  about 
75  fathoms  in  the  plane  of  it  having  been  excavated,  they  have 
yielded  about  20  tons  of  galena,  containing  80  per  cent,  of 
pure  lead.  The  bearing  of  the  lode  is  from  X.  45  W.  to  N.  50 
^y.,  its  underlie  iieing  to  the  northeast.  The  breadth  varies 
fronx  2^  to  5  feet,  and  the  ore-ijearing  part  from  eight  inches  to 
occasionally  two  feet.  Judging  by  tiie  eye,  the  produce  of  the 
lode  in  galena  of  80  pru-  cent,  may  vary  from  nearly  dead 
ground  in  some  places  to  as  much  as  nearly  two  tons  to  tlie 
fathom  in  others.  The  rock  which  the  vein  intersects  is  an 
arenaceous  limestone,  the  fossils  of  whicii  prove  it  to  belong  to 
that  division  of  the  lower  siluriau  series,  which  is  known  as  the 
calciferous  saiidrock.  Ju  the  bearing  of  the  lode  the  base  of 
tills  formation  crops  out  altout  a  mile  from  the  shaft,  and  it  is 
succeeded  by  the  Potsdam  sandstone,  which  j)revails  for  three- 
quarters  of  a  mile  further,  beyond  whicli  the  gneiss  and  lime- 
stone of  the  Laurentian  series  present  tliemselves.  Founding 
his  opinion  on  litliologieal  characters  and  stratigrajjliical  se- 
(jueiice,  Professor  llall  is,  1  believe,  disposed  to  regard  the 
lead-ltearing  rock  of  Missouri  as  of  the  age  of  the  calciferous 
formation,  lint  the  want  of  fossils  in  the  Missouri  rock  must  of 
course  render  the  identiilcation  somewhat  uncertain.  The 
Ramsay  rock  is  undoulitedly  the  calciferous,  but  whether  the 
Missouri  be  so  or  not,  the  masses  of  galena  which  occur  in  it  as 
well  as  thos(>  of  Wisconsin,  the  rock  of  which,  from  fossil  evi- 
dence, is  considered  to  be  of  the  Hudson  River  formation,  are 
not  the  same  in  their  mode  of  occurrence  as  those  of  Ramsay. 
The    Wisconsin   and   Missouri   masses,    though    considerable, 


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iiovcr  run  deep.  As  described  by  Mr.  Witney,  they  do 
not  occur  in  true  veins,  but  fill  up  fissures,  druses  or 
vertical  and  horizontal  caverns,  which  do  not  owe  their 
existence  to  dislocations,  and  are  confined  in  vertical  ranjie 
to  a  certain  set  of  strata  of  no  very  jrreat  thickness.  The 
Ramsay  ore,  on  the  contrary,  occurs  in  a  true  vein,  fillinjr 
a  track  witii  a  connected  dislocation  ;  and,  on  a  late  visit 
to  the  mine,  I  had  an  op|)ortunity  of  observing  a  clear 
evidence  of  this  in  one  of  the  walls  of  the  lode  (I»oth  of  which 
are  well  defined),  in  the  parallel  grooves  occasioned  by  the 
grinding  of  the  terminal  edges  of  the  strata  on  the  opposite 
sides  of  the  crack  when  the  displacement  happened.  Whatever 
quantity  of  ore  the  lode  may  carry  with  it,  there  is  Utile  doubt 
of  its  great  depth,  a  depth  to  ichieh,  indeed,  ito  certain  limit  can 
be  placed.  In  addition  to  the  calciferous  sandrock,  the  lode 
will  intersect  the  Potsdam  sandstone  and  the  Laurentian  series 
beneath,  and  in  this  respect  resemble  the  Rossie  lodes.  Little 
hesitation  can  be  felt  in  pronouncing  it  to  be  a  lode  of  the 
same  age  as  these,  and  the  interesting  fact  i.  now  for  the  first 
time  shown,  that  not  only  these  lodes,  but  probaldy  all  the  yet 
known  lead  veins  of  the  Laurentian  rocks,  are  newer  than  at 
least  the  calciferous  formation,  and  [lossibly  than  some  of  the 
formations  above  it,  thus  extending  consideraldy  the  area  in 
which  such  veins  may  t)e  looked  for. 

There  ai)pear  t(j  be  indications  of  other  lodes  with  nearly  the 
same  bearing  as  the  one  opened  at  Ramsay,  not  far  removed 
from  it.  and  it  may  Ijclong  to  a  gron]),  which,  running  parallel 
with  Bedford  and  Rossie  group,  would  be  ahont  forty  miles  dis- 
tant from  it  to  the  northeast.  Additional  excavations  have 
been  made  on  the  Ramsay  lode  during  the  last  summer  (ISoO), 
and  the  company  who  have  mined  it  have  erected  a  smelting 
furnace  and  rednccd  a  large  portion  of  the  ore  obtained.  A 
ten  horse-power  engine  is  used  to  give  blast  to  the  furnace  and 
pump  the  water  from  the  mine.  The  shaft  has  been  sunk  to 
the  depth  of  7.^  fathoms,  but  a  considerable  spring  of  water 
having  been  struck,  it  will  reipiire  a  much  more  powerful  en- 
gine to  make  an  effectual  trial  on  the  lode,  of  which  it  appears 
to  me  well  worthy. 


CHARTER. 


ANNO    VICESIMO-SECUNDO 


VICTORI.^E    REOIISr^E 


CAP.     CXI  I. 

All  Act  to  incorporate  the  Ramsay  Lead  Mining  and 
Smelting  Company. 

^Assented  to  ith  May,  1850  ] 

Whereas  the  several  persons  hereinafter  named,  Preamble, 
have  hy  their  petition  represented  tliat  they  have  asso- 
ciated themselves  together  witli  divers  others  for  the 
[(urpose  of  exploring  for  and  working  mines  of  lead 
and  other  ores,  at  Ramsay,  in  the  county  of  Lanark, 
Canada  West,  and  elsewhere,  l»y  articles  of  agreement 
entered  into  at  the  city  of  Montreal,  and  have  raised 
l»y  suijscription  the  ca[tital  necessary  effectually  to  he- 
gin  their  operations,  hut  that  they  experience  great 
difiiculties  in  carrying  out  the  ohjects  for  which  they 
are  associated  without  an  act  incorporating  them,  with 
the  (towers  hereinafter  mentioned,  and  have  prayed  that 
such  act  may  he  passed  ;  therefore,  ITer  Alaiesty,  hy 
and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Legislative 
Council  and  Assemhly  of  Canada,  enacts  as  follows : 


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if. 


cortnin  persons     1.   David  ToiTaucc,  Tlicoflove  Hai't,  Henry  Chap- 

iuuorporuti 

man,  Thomas  Kay  and  iidmund  li.  Parsons,  the  pres- 
ent trustees  of  the  association  meiitioncd  in  the  pre- 
amble to  this  act,  and  their  successors,  and  such  and 
so  many  otlier  persons  or  parties  as  have  become  or 
shall  become  shareholders  in  the  capital  stock  herein- 
after menticmed,  shall  be  and  they  are  hereby  consti- 
tuted a  body  politic  and  corporate,  in  fact  and  in  name, 
c-oppornte  11.11110  bv  the  uauic  of  the  "  Ramsav  Lead  Mininp^  and  Smelt- 
ma'  Uompanv,  and  hv  that  name  shall  and  mav  sue 
and  bo  sued,  implead  and  be  inii)lcaded,  answer  and 
1)0  answered  unto,  in  all  courts  of  law  or  e(piity  what- 
soever, and  shall  have  uninterrupted  succession  Avith 
a  common  seal,  which  may  by  them  be  changed  or 
varied  at  their  pleasure. 

cnpifai  stock      2.   The  cai)ital  stock  of  the  said  Corporation  shall 

luiil  shun-'.         ,,.,.,,  ,1.1. 

be  iutr  thousand  ])ounds,  and  the  same  hereby  is  di- 
vided into  lifty  thousand  shares  of  the  value  of  one 
pound  each. 


I.iiilillity  of 

SImiohiJIdcis 

liiniti'd. 


3.  No  shareh.older  in  the  said  Corporation  shall  bo 
in  any  manner  wliatsocver  lialtle  for  or  charged  with 
the  payment  of  any  del)t  or  demand  due  by  the  said 
Corporation,  beyond  the  amount  of  his,  her  or  their 
subscrilied  share  or  shares  in  the  ea[)ital  stock  of  the 
saiil  Corporation.    \ 


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(^1  N   Oi    nHH  Iv    Mill  *  i 

p'or 'imrr.''  ''"'' <-'idle(l  ill  upou  tlio  stock  already  issuimI  are  (Mpial  to 
(iv((  sliilhiigs  currency  per  siiare  :  tiierefnrc,  th»!  calls 
to  be  hereafter  made  on  tiie  holders  of  tiie  said  stock 
shall  not  e.Kceed  in  the  whoh^  sum  (il'lfen  sliilliiigs  \n'v 
share,  and  the  same  shall  be  )>iiid  iiy  instahneiits  when 
and  in  such  maimer  as  shall  be  pi-eseribeil  liy  |1k'  Di- 
rectors hereinafter  UKMitioiied  ;  provided,  also,  that 
nolhing  hennn  contained  shall  exoiiei'ate,  diiniuish,  or 
relieve  any  party  I'rom  existing  lial»ility  to  the  said 


! 


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Company,  whether  the  said  liability  relates  to  coiitri-P'-ov8o:Form- 

\      ,•  1  iPiii  ,,,  er  liabilities  not 

butions  due  or  to  fall  duo  upon  stock  already  issued, *<'i'«a«"«''te(i. 
or  otherwise,  but  on  the  contrary  all  such  liability  and 
contributions  shall  and  luay  be  enforced  in  the  same 
vray,  and  the  said  Corporation  shall  have  the  same 
remedy  to  enforce  the  payment  of  calls  already  made, 
and  all  other  debts  and  sums  now  due  and  called  for,  ' 
as  is  hereinafter  pi-escribed  with  respect  to  future  calls 
and  liabilities. 


)n  shall  bo 
ir<;cd  with 
ly  tlie  said 
r  oi'  their 
ock  of  the 


y  paid  or 
L'  e<|ual  to 
'.,  the  calls 
said  stock 
llinji's  pt'r 
enis  when 
by  Ihc  l)i- 
also,  tliat 
miiiish,  or 
•  I  lie  said 


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5.  All  and  every,  the  estate  and  property,  real  or  certain  proper- 
personal,  I)elonging  to  tlie  said  Association  formed  c'orpwuuou*''" 
under  the  Articles  of  Association  aforesaid,  at  the  time 
of  the  passing  of  tliis  Act,  and  all  debts  or  claims  due 
to  or  possessed  by  the  said  Association  shall  be  and 
hereby  are  transferred  to  and  vested  in  the  Corporation 
herelty  estahlished,  which  shall  in  like  manner  be  lia- 
ble to  and  for  all  debts  due  by  or  claims  upon  the  said 
Association  ;  and  the  trustees  of  the  said  Association, 
at  the  time  of  (he  inissing  of  this  Act,  shall  be  Direc- 
tors of  the  said  (corporation,  as  if  elected  under  this 
Act,  until  their  successors  shall  be  elected  as  herein- 
after provided. 

<!.    It  shall   hi'  lawful  for  the   said   Corporation   to rorponition 
have   and   hold   such    lands    and    immovable    or    iral  plnUi"y't, "".^x*' 
proi)erty  as  may  be  iK^cessaiy  for  ciirrying  on  the  busi- '""  "*^  ^"''"""' 
ness  of  the  said  (!orj)oralioii,  provided  the  sum  invested 
in   real  pio|>erty  piiirhased  irom  private  individuals  or 
from  tht!  ('rown  (h>  iKtt  at  a  ly  one  time  exceed  twenty 
Ihowsiiiid  pounds;  ami  i(  shall  be  lawful   for  the  said 
(!oi'porati(»n  to  sell,  h'ase.  or  otherwise  dispose  of  tlie 
said  properly  and  estate  as  they  may  see  lit. 

7     It  shall  b.«  hiwfiil  for  the  'aid  Corporation   to  en- iinsinoss  of  the 
gage   in   and   I'oHow   (he  oeciip:ili<,n   and   business  (>f  Jimr'''''""'*'' 
carrying  on  cvploratioi,  Ibr  and  of  niidiiig  and  getting 
lead  and  other  ores,  metals,  and  minerals,  and  of  man- 


ufactiiring  and  disposing  of  the  so  me  for  the  benefit 
of  the  said  Corporation,  and  to  do  all  things  necessary 
for  the  pui'posos  aforesaid,  not  inconsistent  with  the 
rights  of  any  other  parties  or  with  the  conditions  of 
any  grant  or  other  title  under  which  the  said  Corpora- 
tion may  hold  the  'ands  in  which  such  things  arc  to  he 
done. 


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corponition  ,^     jf  4],^  s,im  gf  flftv  tiiousand  pounds  be  found  in- 

may  increimc  •  » 

^'!ji;'f"oJ„«t^^J'/°  sufficient  for  the  purposes  of  this  Act,  then  and  in 
rcnpy.  ^^^jj  ^j^g^  jj^  ^.j^j^jj  j^g  lawful  for  the  members  of  the 

said  Corporation,  by  a  vote  of  not  less  than  two  thirds 
in  number  of  the  shareholders,  representing  not  less 
than  twenty  thousai»d  shares,  at  any  general  meeting 
to  be  expressly  called  for  that  piu-pose,  to  increase  the 
capital  stock  of  the  said  (\)rporation,  cither  by  the  ad- 
mission of  new  members  as  subscribers  to  the  said 
undertaking  or  otherwise  to  a  sum  not  exceeding  in 
all  the  sum  of  two  hundred  thousand  pounds  cur- 
rency, including  the  said  sum  of  fifty  thousand  pounds 
currency  hereinbefore  authorized  to  be  raised,  in  such 
manner  and  u])on  such  terms  and  coiulitions  and 
tuulor  such  regulations  as  shall  be  approved  and  agreed 
U])on  ;  and  the  capital  so  to  be  raise<l  by  the  crea- 
tion of  Jien'  shares  shall  l)e  in  all  respects  i)art  of  the 
itiKiitH  HiKi  iiii-caj)ital  stock  of  iho  said  (corporation;  aiul  (jvtM'y 
tIrK  of  m>w  '  shareholder  of  such  new  stock  shall  be  a  member  of 
the  said  (Jorporatioii,  and  be  entitled  in  all  and  every, 
th(^  same  powers,  privileges  and  rigiits  as  the  persons 
who  are  now  shan>iiold(M's,  in  ))roportion  to  the  inter- 
est (»r  number  of  shares  wiruili  he  may  ae(|uire,  and  to 
the  amount  of  calls  paid  thereon  ;  antl  shall  also  bo 
liable  and  subject  to  the  same  oltligations  and  stand 
interested  in  all  the  profits  and  losses  of  the  said 
undertaking  in  proportiyn  to  the  sum  that  lio  shall 
subscribe  and  pay  thereto,  as  fully  and  effecl\uilly  to 
all  intents  ami  purposes  whatsoever  as  if  such  other  or 
further  sum  had  Iteen  originally  raised  as  a  part  of  the 


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..If; 


said  first  sum  ot  fifty  thousand  pounds ;  anything 
herein  contained  to  tlie  contrary  notwithstanding. 

9.   It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said  Corporation  from  corporation 

.,.,.,-,.  ,        "•*?  borrow 

time  to  time  to  borrow,  cither  in  this  Province  or  else- money  from 

time  to  time. 

where,  all  such  sum  or  sums  of  money  not  exceeding 
in  all,  at  any  one  time,  fifty  thousand  pounds  cuiTcncy, 
as  they  may  find  expedient ;  and  to  make  the  bonds, 
debentures,  or  other  securities  they  shall  grant  for  the 
sum  so  borrowed,  payable  eitlier  in  currency  or  in 
sterling  with  interest,  and  at  such  place  or  places 
within  or  without  this  Province  as  they  may  deem  ad- 
^'isable,  and  such  bonds,  debentures  or  other  securities 
may  be  made  payable  to  bearer,  or  transferable  by 
simple  endorsement  or  otlierwise,  and  may  be  in  such 
form  as  the  Directors  for  the  time  being  may  see  fit ; 
and  the  said  Directors  may  hypothecate,  mortgage  or 
pledge  the  land,  I'cvcuues  and  other  property  of  the 
said  corporation  for  the  due  payment  of  the  said  sums 
and  the  interest  thereon  ;  provided  alwavs,  that  such  tiio  Hamr  not 

.  1     II  1  11  1  "i  to  bo  horrowi'd 

Corporation   shall    not   m    allowed    to    l)orrow    any  until  ii.ii»  the 

'  ^  „  .     cii|iit«l  lio  puid 

part  of  such  sum  of  fifty  thousand  pounds  aforesaid  up- 
until  at  least  one  half  of  the  said  capital  stock  of  the 
said  Corporation  heroiiibofore  authorized  shall  be  paid 
up  and  uvailabh;  for  the  use  of  the  (Corporation. 


10.   The   stock    of   tlu;   said    Corporation    shall    1»l' f^J^IJ  |,''^^^c';j^; 
deeni(!(l  personal  or  moveable  estate,  notwithstanding 
the  (ionversioii  of  any  portictn  of  the  funds  constituting 
the  siiine  into  lands  ;  and  at  all  meetings  of  tbe  share- Number  oj 

"  votes  ol  siiaro 

hohlers  held  in  [)ursuanco  of  this  Act,  whether  the ''"'^'''■''' *•■• 
same  b(i  general  ov  special,  every  shareholder  shall  be 
entitled  to  as  many  vott^s  as  he  shall  have  shares  in  the 
said  sto(!k  ;  ami  such  vott!  or  votes  may  be  given  in 
person  or  l»y  proxy  ;  and  all  (piestions  j)roposed  or 
subinitied  for  the  consideration  of  the  said  meetings 
shall  be  liiially  determiiKMl  l)y  the  majority  of  the  votes, 
except  in  the  case  or  cases  otherwise  provided  for ; 


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Proxies. 


and  provldeil  also,  that  no  person  shall  bo  entitled  to 
vote  as  proxy  at  any  meeting  unless  he  shall  be  a 
shareholder  in  the  said  Corporation,  and  produee  writ- 
ten anthori^y  as  snch  proxy  in  the  form  prescribed  by 
the  schednle  A. 


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Proviflo:Bhares     i|,   'file  sliarcs  in  tlic  stock  in  the  said  Corporation 

nf    atnnlr    tn    tin  * 


of  Rtock  to  be 


issiRimbio  by   jjijall  1)0  assignable  bv  delivery  of  the  certificates,  to  be 

lelivery  of  i«r-  n  ,  ,7  7 


of  schc<iiiio"iT  isi^iicd  to  the  holders  of  such  sliares  respectively,  and 
by  assiginnent  in  the  form  of  the  Schedule  B,  or  in 
any  otiior  convenient  form  to  l>e  prescribed  by  any 
b^'-law  of  the  said  Corporation  ;  and  by  such  assign- 
ment the  party  acct^pting  such  tran^Ier  shall  thence- 
forth become  in  all  res])(!cts  a  member  of  the  said 
Corporation  in  respect  of  such  share  or  shares  in  the 
])lace  of  the  party  so  transferring  the  same ;  but  no 
such  transfer  shall  be  valid  or  elfectual  until  all  calls 
or  instalments  due  on  the  shares  pjirporting  to  be 
transferred,  and  all  del)ts  or  i.  onoys  due  to  the  said 
Corporation  thereon,  shall  have  l>een  fully  paid  up  and 
discharged  ;  and  a  certified  copy  of  such  transfer  ex- 
tracted iVoni  (he  proper  l)ook  of  entry,  and  purporting 
to  l>e  signed  l»y  the  clerk,  or  otljer  ollieer  of  the  said 
Company  duly  auti»(n'i/ed  thereto,  shall  lie  sullicient 
prima  fuvic.  evidence  of  every  such  transfer  in  all 
courts  in  this  Province. 


Kirmors  iimy     12.   Tlu!  Directors  of  tiio  said  Company  shall  have 
in  Kii!,'iiin.i  iuuii)o\ver  and  authority  to  estaltlish  and  have  a  itlace  ot 

tllf    |!|lltf(i  .  . 

stiitcH  for  n-  imsincss  or  oHice  in  the  cities  of  liondon  and  liiver- 

t4iin  piirpoitt'H. 

pool  in  England,  and  Ntnv  York,  IJoston,  I'hiladdphia 
and  Detroit  ii)  the  United  States  (»f  Amcn-ica,  and  to 
open  books  of  subs4'riptioii  in  all  or  any  of  the  said 
cities  for  the  stot^k  of  the  said  Corporation,  and  re- 
ceive tluM'o  subscriptions  for  the  siiiil  stock,  transfei-a- 
ble  there,  lespectively,  and  to  miike  all  such  instal- 
ments called  thereon,  and  dividends  declni'ed  th(^r((by, 
payable  there,  respectively.     And  the  said  Directors 


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sliall  also  have  power  to  name  one  or  more  Affent  or  Agents,  and 

powers  of 

Agents  or  Commissioners  in  all  or  any  of  the  aforesaid  "gents, 
cities,  for  all  or  an)'^  of  the  purposes  aforesaid,  and  to 
allow  to  such  Agent  or  Agents  or  Commissioners  a 
reasoiuilde  remuneration  for  his  or  their  services,  and 
all  other  uccessar}'^  expenses  of  the  said  office  or 
offices ;  and  it  shall  also  he  competent  for  the  said 
Directors  to  make  all  such  rules  and  regulations,  and 
to  prescribe  all  such  forms  as  to  them  may  seem  meet 
for  the  hotter  and  more  satisfactorily  managing  and 
conducting  the  affairs  and  husiiu^ss  of  the  said  Cor- 
poration in  all  or  any  of  tlie  cities  aforesaid,  and  for 
facilitating  and  rendering  effectual  the  suoscription 
foi-  and  transfer  of  and  ])aymcnts  upon  the  said  stock 
respectively,  and  for  all  other  purposes  connected 
tht>re\vith  and  incidental  tiiereto :  provided  always.  Proviso. 
that  the  said  nirc{!tors  may  make  hy-hiws  j)rescrilting 
the  mode  in  which  any  shares  of  the  stock  in  all  or  any 
or  either  of  the  said  cities  may  he  made  shares  in 
Canada,  or  whereby  any  shares  of  the  stock  in  Cana(Ui 
may  be  made  shares  in  Hnglaud  or  in  the  Tnited 
States  albresaid. 


I-?.    For  managing  tlie  affairs  of  the  said  Corjjora-rivc  i>iroi-tor» 

,  1111/.  •  •  11  1.  "^  Coriioratiou 

tion,   fliere  shall   be  Inim  time  to  time  elected  out  ot  tn  i.o  oicrna  to 

■  1  ,  i>      1  •  I      i-1  ...  iimiiagc  itH    al'- 

the  members   ol    tlie    said    Corporation    live   persons, fuirs. 

lu'ing  cacli  a  proprietor  of  not  less  than  lifty  shares  of 

th(^  said  capital  stock,  to  be   Directors  of  tlm  said  Cor- 

))oration.  for   orihiring,  managing   and   ilireeting   the 

alliiii's  of  the  said  Corporal  ion ;  and  any  three  Direc-Tinv.Mo  forma 

,  ■  (luoriuu. 

tors  shall  lorni  a  (luornm  of  (lie  IJoard,  and  any  ma- 
jorily  of  such  (|Uonim  may  excrcisi^  all  the  powers  of 
the  Directors:  jn'ovidcd  always,  that  unless  at  a  nn'cl- ivovi>o. 
ing  of  a  majority  of  the  Directors,  no  by-law,  rule, 
resolution  or  regulation  for  raising  money  or  disposing 
of  tlie  real  estate  of  the  Corporation,  shall  be  liiially 
passed,  unless  conlirnnMl  at  the  next  ni(>etiiig  of  the 
]>irectors,  lo  take  jdace  upon  due  notice  given ;  pro- 


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1 1 ' 


Proviso,     vided  also,  that  no  Director  shall  have  more  than  one 
vote  at  any  meeting  of  Directors,  except  the  President 
or  Chairman  for  the  time  being,  who  shall,  in  case  of 
an  equal  division,  have  the  casting  vote,  although  he 
may  have  given  one  vote  before ;  and  whenever  any 
vacancy  shall  happen  among  the  Dircctoi's  by  death, 
resignation,  or  removal   out  of  the   Province,   such 
vacancy  shall  be  filled  up  until  the  next  general  meet- 
ing of  the  shareholders,  in  such  manner  as  may  be 
nirectors  may  p»"cscribed  by  any  by-law  of  the  Corporation  ;  and  the 
mafninl' "stock  l^b'cctors  shall  \viYC  full  ])o\ver  to  dispose  of  such  part 
o    orporat  on.  ^^  ^j^^  stoclc  of  tlic  Said  Corporation  as  may  remain  to 
be  disposed  of,  or  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  added 
to,  or  fall  into  the  general  mass  either  by  forfeiture  or 
otherwise,  on  such  terms  and  conditions  and  to  such 
parties  as  they  think  most  likely  to  promote  the  inter- 
c«"»  est  of  the  said  Corporation  ;  and  they  shall  also  have 

full  power  to  make  such  calls  for  money  from  the  sev- 
eral shareholders  for  the  time  being,  as  is  hereinbefore 
provided  for,  and  to  sue  for,  recover  and  get  in  all 
such  calls,  whether  already  made  or  hereafter  to  be 
made,  and  to  cause  and  declare  the  said  shares  to  bo 
forfeited  to  the  said  Corporation  in  case  of  non-pay- 
ment, on  such  terms  and  in  such  way  as  they  shall 
ProneoiiingB  in  SCO  fit  to  i)i"escribo  by  any  bv-law  ;  iind  in  anv  action  to 

aotlong  or  calls. .        .  ,  ,    ,  "  ,  "  , ,    . 

be  brought  to  recover  any  money  due  on  any  call,  it 
shall  not  1)0  necessary  to  set  fttrth  the  special  matter  in 
the  (lochiratioii,  but  it  sliidl  be  sullicieiit  to  allege  that 
the  dcleinhmt  is  a  hohlor  u['  one  share  or  more  in  the 
said  stock  (stating  the  numlier  of  shai'es)  and  is  in- 
debteil  to  the  Corporation  in  the  sum  to  whicli  the 
calls  in  arroar  shall  amount  (stating  the  numlier  and 
amount  of  such  calls),  whereby  an  action  hath  accrued 
to  the  Corporation  l)y  virtue  of  this  Act  ;  and  it  shall 
be  sullicient  to  maintiiin  such  action,  to  prove  l»y  any 
one  witness,  that  the  defendant  at  the  time  of  making 
such  call  was  a  shareholder  in  the  number  of  shares 
alleged,  and  that  the  calls  sued  for  were  made  ami 


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§ 


notice  thereof  given,  in  conformity  with  the  by-laws  of 
tlie  said  Corporation,  and  it  shall  not  be  necessary  to 
prove  the  appointment  of  the  Directors,  nor  any  other 
matter  whatsoever  ;  —  the  said  Directors  shall  and  may  needs  of  the 

'  "^  Corporation. 

use  and  affix  or  cansed  to  be  used  and  affixed  the  com- 
mon seal  of  the  said  Corporation  to  any  documents 
which  in  their  judgment  may  ix'tpiirc  the  same,  and 
any  act  or  deed  bearing  such  seal  and  signed  by  the 
President  (or  by  any  two  Directors)  and  countersigned 
by  the  vSccretary,  shall  be  held  to  be  the  act  or  deed  of 
the  Corporation,  —  they  may  appoint  such  and  so  many 
agents,  officers  and  servants  of  the  said  Corporation 
under  them  as  to  the  said  Directors  may  seem  meet, 
and  may  fix  the  salaries  and  remuneration  of  such 
officers,   agents  and  servants;  —  may  make  any  pay- Mny appoint 

'       "  '  •'  J     I     J    g„t.„ts  and  ofli- 

ments  and  enter  into  any  contracts  for  the  execution  ccrr<,  &c. 
of  tlie  purposes  of  the  said  Corporation,  and  for  all 
other  matters  necessary  for  the  transaction  of  its  af- 
fairs ;  —  may  generally  deal  with,  treat,  purchase,  lease,  siannRenieiit  of 
sell,  mortgage,  let,  release,  and  disi)ose  of  and  exer- 
cise all  acts  of  ownershij)  over  the  lands,  tenements, 
property  and  elTects  of  the  said  Corporation  ;  —  may 
institute  and  defend  in  the  name  of  the  said  Corpor- 
ation all  suits  at  law  ;  —  may  from  time  to  time   dis-  .    ,■ 
place  tlie  oHicers,  agents  and  sei-vants  of  tlie  said  Cor- 
poration,   except    as    hereafter    provided;    and   they  General  powers 
shall  and  may  have  power  to  do  all  things  whatsoever 
which  may  be  necessary  or  reciuisite  to  carry  out  the 
olijects    of  the    Corjxtration,  and  to  vest  the  present 
property  and   funds   of   the    said    Association    in    the 
Corporation  herdiv  erected  ;  —  they  shall  declare  div-sjinii  .leWaro 
idends  of  tiie   profits  of  the   said  Corporation,  when 
and  as  oCtcMi  as  the  stati;  of  the  funds  thereof  may  ])er- 
mit ;  —  may   appoint    wiien   special    meetings    of  the  And  uppohu 
shareholders    shall    l»e    held,    and    deternnne    on    thecoipmiition. 
mode  of  giving  notice  thereof,  and  of  the  manner  in 
which  the  sliareholdei's  may  call  or  requirt;  such  spe- 
cial meetings  to  be  called  ;  —  they  shall  have  power  to 


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carry  into  force  and  eftect  all  and  every  the  provisions 
and  stipulations  contained  in  the  articles  of  agreement 
in  the  first  section  of  this  Act  referred  to,  with  re- 
spect to  the  appropriation  and  allotment,  whether  con- 
ditional or  otherwise,  of  the  stocli  of  the  said  Com- 
pany, and  also  witli  respect  to  all  other  matters  and 
things  in  the  said  articles  of  agreement  provided  for, 
not  inconsistent  with  this  Act ;  and  they  shall  have 
power  to  make  by-laws  for  the  government  and  con- 
trol of  the  oflicers  and  servants  of  the  said  (Jorpor- 
Mny  niRkc  Ky-  ation  ;  —  they   shall   also   have    power   to   make  and 

laws.  *^  * 

frame  all  other  Ity-laws,  rules  and  regulations  for  the 
management  of  tlie  business  of  the  said  Corporation 
in  all  its  particulars  and  details,  whether  hcreinl)eforc 
s|)eciaUy  enumeriited  or  not,  and  the  same  also  at 
any  time  to  alter,  change,  moilify  and  repeal ;  which 
said  liy-laws,  rules  and  regulations  shall  l>c  sulnnitted 
for  approval,  rej(\ction,  or  alteration  Ity  the  stockhold- 
ers at  the  next  general  meeting,  or  at  a  special  meet- 
ing to  bo  called  by  the  said  Dii-ectors;  and  when  and 
as  so  ratified  and  confirmed,  shall  be  i)Ut  into  writing, 
and  duly  recorded  in  tlte  minutes  of  the  said  Cor- 
poration, and  be  liinding  upon,  and  observed  and 
taken  notice  of  by  all  members  of  the  said  Corpora- 
rrooi  of  By-    tiou  ;  and  any  copy  of  the  said  by-laws,  or  any  of  them 

laws.  .  "    , 

jairporting  to  lie  under  the  hand  of  the  clerk,  secre- 
tary, or  otiur  orticer  of  tlie  said  Company,  and  hav- 
ing the  seal  of  the  Corporation  allixed  to  it,  siiall  be 
received  as  prima  facie  evidence  of  such  by-law  in 
Proviso :  an  to  all  courts  in  liiis  Province;  provided  always,  tliat 
of  iJimtors.  tlie  stockholders  may,  at  any  general  or  special  meet- 
ing, appoint  sucli  sidary  or  compensation  to  (he  I'resi- 
(U'nt  and  Pirectors  respectively  as  to  them  shall  seem 
reasonal)le  and  proper. 


whou  and  14.    The  lii'st  general  mec^tiny;  of  the  shareliolders 

iii(Miiii"-.iiiiii    ol   the  siiid  (  oritonition   shall  lie  held  at  the  oiliee  of 

111'  llclil.  _  ' 

the  said  Corporation  in  the  city  of  Montreal  (at  which 


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1 


f 


place  the  said  Corporation  shall  have  its  principal  place 
of  business),  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  May,  one  • 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  fifty-nine ;  and  at  such 
time  and  place,  and  on  the  like  day  in  every  year 
thereafter,  the  said  shareholders  shall  elect  five  fit  and 
qualified  persons  to  be  Directors  of  the  said  Company 
in  the  place  and  stead  of  the  five  who  shall  retire ; 
and  imtil  such  first  election,  and  until  they  shall  re- 
spectively retire  as  aforesaid,  the  Trustees  of  the  Asso- cortnin  peMons 

•      •  /•  •  1  •         m  •  1    T-w       •  1     m  nppoiutcd    flrBt 

ciation  aiorcsaid,  to  wit:    llie  said  David  lorrance, Directors. 

Theodore  Hart,  Tliomas  Kay,  Henry  Chapman  and  E. 

H.  Parsons,  and  the  survivors  or  survivor  of  them, 

shall  be,  and  are  hereby  declared  to  be,  and  constituted 

Directors  of  tlie  said  Corporation  ;  and  the  said  David  navid  Torrnnce 

'■  appointed    flrst 

Torrance  shall,  until  such  day,  l)e  the  President  of  the  I'rcsident. 

said  Corporation  ;  and  they  shall  have  and  exercise  all 

and  every  the  powers,  and  shall  be  subject  to  all  and 

every  the  clauses,  conditions,  lial>ility,  and  restrictions 

imposed  on  the  Directors  to  be  chosen  under  this  Act ; 

provided  always,  that  in  all  actions  or  suits,  or  other  Proviso:  ns  to 

*  •'  1  ■  1   y-(        Bervlco  of  pro- 

legal  proceedings  to  be  brought  against  the  said  Cor- cobs. 

poration,  it  shall  be  lawful  and  sufiicicnt  for  the  plain- 

titFor  complainant,  or  any  other  party,  to  cause  process 

to  be  served  at  the  office  of  the  said  Corporation  in  the 

city  of  Montreal,  or  personally  ui»on  the  President,  or 

on  any  one  of  the  Directors,  or  on  the  .Secretary  of 

said  (corporation,  at  any  other  place.    And  provided  Kiectimi  of 

in  •  ,.     1       T  •  II  I'lesi.lint    and 

that  at  the  first  meef  iiig  ot  the  Directors  to  l)e  elected  vioo  rresident. 
as  aforesaid,  to  be  holdon  after  the  passing  of  this  Act, 
the  said  Directors  shall  choose  and  elect  from  among 
themselves  some  one  to  be  President,  and  also  some 
one  to  be  Vice-President  of  the  said  Corporation. 


to.    At  the  first  general  ineetiii<r  of  the  sharehohl-  nptiroment  of 


ors,  and  at  the  annual  general  meeting  in  each  year 
thereafter,  the  Directors  thiM-eof  shall  retire  from  office, 
but  shall  be  eligiltlo  lor  re-election  ;  and  the  Directors, 
immediately  alter  the  election  at  each  annual  meeting, 
4 


Ulrootors. 


■I 


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shall  choose  one  of  their  own  number  to  be  Presi- 
dent. 

Fttiiuro  to  hold     16.    The  faihire  to  liold  the  said  first  seneral  mect- 

mceting  not  to  " 

hitlon'o/c^r  "^^'  ^^  ^^^  other  meeting,  or  to  elect  such  Directors  or 
poration.  President,  shall  not  dissolve  the  said  Corporation  ;  but 
sucli  failure  or  omission  shall  and  may  be  supplied  by 
and  at  any  special  meeting  to  be  called  as  the  Direc- 
tors, in  conformity  with  the  by-laws  of  the  said  Cor- 
poration, may  see  fit  to  appoint ;  and,  until  siich  elec- 
tion of  new  Directors,  those  who  may  be  in  office  for 
the  time  being  shall  be  and  continue  in  office,  and  ex- 
ercise all  the  rights  and  powers  thereof  \intil  such  new 
election  be  made,  as  hereinbefore  provided. 


IiifiTpn'tntiou 
vlauHf. 


17.  The  word  "  Lands  "  in  this  Act  shall  include 
all  lands,  tenements  and  hereditaments,  and  real  or 
immovable  property  whatsoever ;  and  all  words  im- 
porting the  singular  number  or  the  masculine  gender 
only  shall  extend  to  more  than  one  person,  party  or 
thing,  and  to  females  as  well  as  males,  and  the  word 
"  Shareholder  "  slnill  include  tlic  heirs,  executors,  ad- 
ministrators, curators,  legatees  or  assigns  of  such 
shar^'holder,  or  any  other  party  having  the  legal  pos- 
session of  any  share  whether  in  his  own  name  or  that 
of  any  other,  \inless  the  context  shall  be  inconsistent 
with  such  construction ;  and  whenever  power  is  by 
this  Act  given  to  do  any  thing,  ])Ower  shall  be  in- 
tondeil  also  to  do  all  tilings,  which  may  i)e  necessary 
to  the  doing  of  such  thing  ;  and  generally  all  words 
and  clauses  heroin  sliall  receive  such  lil)eral  and  fair 
construction  as  will  best  ensure  the  carrying  into  ef- 
fect of  this  Act  according  to  its  trut;  intent  and 
siiirit. 


wiiiMi  the  Com-     1^-    It  shall   not   be  lawful   for  the  said  Corpora- 

moi.'(ii.u,.iiiPBH. tion  to  coniinence  or  ])roceed  with   their   op(>rations 

under  this  Act,  unless  they  shall  have  first  paid  up 


>,lll 


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the  sum  of  ten  per  cent,  on  the  amount  of  their 
capital  stock. 

19.  Nothing  in   this   Act   contained  shall  in  anv  ?'s.'>»8  of  Her 

•    Majt'Bty  Httvud. 

manner  derogate  from  or  affect  the  rights  of  Her 
Majesty,  Her  Heirs  or  Successors,  or  of  any  person 
or  persons,  body  politic  or  corporate,  excepting  so 
far  as  the  same  may  be  specially  derogated  from  or 
affected  by  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

20.  This  Act  shall  be  deemed  a  public  Act.  PuWicAct. 


SCHEDULE     A 


;a 


^ 


FORM   OF   PROXY. 

i 

I,  A.  B.,  ot  ,  hereby  appoint  C.  D.,  of  ,  Form  of  proxy, 

to  be  my  proxy,  and  to  vote  and  act  for  me  as  sucli 
at  all  meetiiigs  of  the  shareholdors  of  the  Ramsay  Lead 
Mining'  and  Smelting'  Company,  and  in  my  name  to 
do  all  things  with  regard  to  the  business  of  the  said 
Company,  which  I  may  by  law  do  by  proxy. 

Witness,  my  hand,  this  day  of  , 

eighteen  hundred  and 

A.  B. 


SCHEDULE   B. 

FORM   OP  TRANSFER. 

I,  A.  B.,  for  value  received,  do  hereby  bargain,  sell  Formoftran»- 
and  transfer  to  C.  D.,  share  [or  shares]  of  the 

stock  of  the  Ramsay  Lead  Mining  and  Smelting  Com- 
pany, to  hold  to  him  the  said  C.  D.,  his  heirs,  execu- 
tors, curators,  administrators  and  assigns,  subject  to 


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the  same  rules  and  ortlers,  and  on  the  same  conditions 
that  I  held  the  same  immediately  before  the  execution 
hereof.  And  I,  the  said  C.  P.,  do  hereby  agi-ee  and 
accept  of  the  said  share  [or  shares],  subject  to 

the  same  rules,  orders  and  conditions. 

Witness,  our  hands  and  seals,  this  day  of  , 

in  the  year 

A.  B. 
CD. 


An  Act  to  Amend  an  Act  to  incorporate  the  Ramsay 
Lead  Mining'  and  Smelling"  Company. 

[Assented  to  9th  June,  1862.] 

Preimbie.  Wlicrcas  the  Ramsay  Lead  Mining  and   Smelting 

Company  are  desirous  of  being  empowered  to  increase 
the  capital  of  the  said  Company  and  to  effect  changes 
in  its  Act  of  Incorporation,  and  have  prayed  therefor, 
and  it  is  expedient  to  grant  their  prayer :  Therefore, 
Her  Majesty,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Legislative  Council  and  Assembly  of  Canada,  en- 
acts as  follows : 


Sec.  2  of  22  V.     1.   The  second  Section  of  the  said  Company's  Act 

'  ^"^''^  ^  '  of  Incorporation  shall  l»c  and  is  hereby  repealed,  and 

in  lieu  thereof  the  fi)llovvini-  shall  be  considered,  taken 

and  read  as  the  second  section  of  the  said  Act,  that  is 

to  say : 


Capital   of  the 
Company. 


/ 


"  2.  The  capital  stock  of  the  said  Corporation  shall 
be  one  hundred  thousand  jmunds  sterling,  divided  into 
twenty  thousand  shares  of  five  pounds  sterling  each 
(such  as  shall  be  issued  in  England)  or  of  six  pounds 
five  shillings  currency  each  (such  as  shall  be  issued  in 
Canada  or  the  United  States)." 


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2.   The  fourth  section  of  the  said  Act  of  Incorpora-Sec.  4,  repealed, 
tion  shall  be  and  is  hereby  repealed,  and  in  lieu  thereof 
the  following  shall  be  considered,  taken  and  read  as 
the  said  fourth  section,  that  is  to  say : 


'.'  4.    The  calls  to  be  hereafter  made  on  the  holders  Cbiis  and  in- 

.      .  ,  ^  stulmcnts      on 

of  the  said  stock  shall  be  paid  m  instalments  when  and  them, 
in  such  manner  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  Directors 
hereinafter  mentioned;  provided,  alr,o,  that  nothing ^.^^^.^^ 
herein  ccMitained  shall  exonerate,  diminish  or  relieve 
any  party  from  existing  liability  to  the  said  Company, 
whether  the  said  liability  relates  to  contributions  due 
or  to  fall  due  upon  stock  already  issued,  or  otherwise, 
but  on  the  contrary  all  such  liability  and  contributions 
shall  and  may  be  enforced  in  the  same  way,  and  the 
said  Corporation  shall  liave  the  same  remedy  to  er.force 
the  payment  of  calls  already  made,  and  all  other  debts 
and  sums  now  due  and  called  for,  as  is  hereinafter  pre- 
scribed with  respect  to  future  calls  and  liabilities." 

3.  The  sixth  section  of  the  said  Act  of  incorporation  scc.  o  amended, 
shall  be  and  is  hereby  extended  so  as  to  enable  the 

said   Company  to  purchase   real  property  as  tlicr"in  Keai  property, 
mentioned  to  the   amount  of  fifty  thousand  pounds 
currency,  instead  of  the  lesser  amount  therein  men- 
tioned ;   and  the  remainder  of  the  said  section  shall 
remain  applicable  to  such  larger  amount. 

4.  In  lieu  of  the  words  "  fifty  thousand  pounds  "  in  see. s corrected, 
the  first  and  twenty-sixth  lines,  and  of  the  words  "  fifty 
thousand  pounds  currency,"  in  the  tenth  and  eleventh 

lines  of  the  eighth  section  of  the  said  Act  of  Incorpo- 
ration, the  words  "  one  hundred  thousand  pounds 
sterling,"  and  in  lieu  of  the  word  "  twenty,"  in  the 
fifth  line  of  tlie  said  section  of  the  said  Act,  the  word 
"  twelve,"  shall  be  and  are  hereby  substituted  so  as  to 
make  such  section  read  consistently  with  the  second 
section. 


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Company 
)iare    its 


may 
lienil 


5.   Tho  said  Company  may  hereafter,  if  deemed  cx- 

]J2J;j'^!fj'™'"»t '"  j^edient,  transfer  its  liead  management  to  a  Board  of 

Directors  in  England,  with  or  without  a  local  Board  in 

Montreal,  with  full  or  partial  powers  of  management 

to  the  former,  or  with  concurrent  or  limited  powers 

certiiin sections  to  the  latter,  iu  all  wliicli  cases  the  thirteenth,  four- 

to  appiy  in  siicli  ,%      r-n         l^        •    ^         n  i  •  n     i 

case.  teentli,  titteenth,  sixteenth,  or  any  other  section  of  the 

said  Act  of  Incorporation,  or  of  this  Act  of  amend- 
ment thereto,  applicable  to  the  appoiutmeiit,  govern- 
ment, direction  and  duties  of  the  Directors  and  Secre- 
tary of  the  said  Company,  shall  be  and  are  hereby 
declared  to  be  Ijindiog  and  obligatory,  and  the  same 
in  all  things  as  though  the  appointment  of  such  Direc- 
tory in  England,  or  local  Board  of  Directors  in  Mont- 
real, with  concurrent  or  limited  powers,  had  been 
originally  provided  for  iu  the  said  Act  of  Incorpora- 
tion ;  and  upon  such  transfer  of  the  head  management, 
the  Board  of  Directors  in  England  shall  be  chosen 
pursuant  to  the  forms  and  provisions  of  the  said  Act 
of  Incorporation,  by  the  shareholders  in  England,  and 
the  Board  of  Directors  in  Montreal,  by  the  sharehold- 
ers ill  Canada. 


I'libiio  Act.  0.   This  Act  shall  be  deemed  a  public  Act. 


BY-LAWS. 


MEETINOS   OF  THE   SHAREHOLDERS. 

A  meotiiig  of  the  shareholders  shall  be  held  annually,  for 
the  clioioc  of  Directors,  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  May  of  each 
year,  nr''ce  of  which,  in  writing,  stating  the  time  and  place  of 
meeting,  sliall  be  given  by  the  Secretary  personally,  or  sent  by 
mail,  post  jjaid,  to  each  shareholder,  ten  days  at  least  before 
such  meeting.  Special  meetings  of  the  shareholders  may  bo 
called  l»y  vote  of  tlie  Directors  ou  a  lilic  notice  required  for  a 
general  meeting. 

VACANCIES   IN   HOARD   OE   DIRECTORS. 

The  Directors  may  fill  any  vacancies  in  their  Board,  the  per- 
sons chosen  by  tliem  to  ilU  such  vacancies  holding  office  for  the 
unexpired  term  of  the  respective  parties  whose  i)laces  they 
shall  l)e  elected  to  fdl. 

HOARD   MEETIN(iS. 

Tlie  Directors  may  hold  meetings  of  tlie  Hoard  either  in 
Montreal  or  Boston,  as  they  may  deem  best  for  tlie  interests 
of  the  ('ompany.  Such  meetings  to  be  called  at  tie  discretion 
and  under  the  direction  of  the  acting  President  for  the  time 
being. 


DlJTIi:s   OE    PRESIDENT    AND    VICIO-I'RESIDENT. 

It  shall  Ik-  tlie  duty  of  tlie  President,  or  in  his  altsence  of 
the  Vice-Prt>sitlent,  to  preside  at  all  nuu'tings  of  the  IJoard,  to 
("xecute  all  contracts  entered  int<j  in  behalf  of  the  Company, 
to  sign  certilicatcs  of  shares,  and  generally  to  sui»erintend  the 
atlUii's  of  the  Company. 


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DUTIES  OF  SKCUETARY  AND  TREASURER. 

Oue  person  shall  be  chosen  by  the  Directors  to  fill  the  office 
of  Ti'oasurcr  and  Secretary,  whoso  duty  it  shall  l)e  to  keep  all 
books  necessary  for  the  nse  of  the  Com))any  and  make  a  cor- 
rect record  of  all  of  its  acts  (which  books  shall  at  all  times  bo 
open  to  the  inspection  of  the  Directors),  to  sign  receipts  of  all 
])ayments  of  money  to  the  Comjiany,  and  countersign  all  cer- 
tificates of  stock ;  to  affix  the  seal  of  the  Corporation,  under 
the  authority  of  the  President  or  Vice-President,  to  all  docu- 
ments re(iuiring  the  same  ;  to  conduct  the  corresi)ondcncc,  and 
furnish  full  statements  of  the  affairs  of  the  Company  to  the 
Directors  when  required. 


TRANSFERS. 

The  shares  of  the  stock  of  the  Corporation  shall  be  transfer- 
able only  on  tlie  books  of  the  Company,  and  transfer-books 
shall  l)e  kept  at  the  office  of  the  Company  in  Boston,  wherein 
transfers  may  be  made  pursuant  to  the  Act  of  Incorporation 
and  By-Laws. 

The  transfer-books  shall  be  chased  during  the  whole  of  the 
day  aj)[)()inted  for  a  meeting  of  shareholders,  and  the  day  pre- 
cedhig  such  meeting. 

The  form  of  tiausfer  shall  be  substantially  the  following: 

For  value  received  hereby  transfer 

and  assign  to  of 

Sliares  of  the  Capital  Stock  of  the  Ramsay 
Lead  ^fining  and  Smelting  Con»pany. 


Dated  tlie 


diiv  of 


A.  D.  iSd 


niVIDKMlS. 

When  any  dividend  shall  Ix-  declared  by  the  Directors,  notice 
thereof,  staling  tiic  tinic  and  pbioe  of  paymi-nt,  siiall  l»e  given 
to  the  stockhoblcrs,  in  like;  manner  us  retpuivd  for  a  general 
meeting  of  the  stockiioLders. 


the 


